12/31/2007

CONTRACT UPDATE - #30
TABLE TALK

Agreements have now been reached in most areas. Actual contract language has been penned.  To put this in perspective, whereas the two parties started this round of bargaining with approximately 300 issues between them the number remaining on the table has been reduced to less than a dozen with half of these being easily resolved.
 
The State has responded to the Union demands on nursing, peace officer, sunsets, labor management, grievance matters and many other areas. These proposals are being reviewed in the context of an overall agreement. 
 
We are in a very late stage of bargaining and at a tipping point. A contract which does not include comparable economic terms negotiated with the other unions is objectively inferior and will not be accepted. While your contract team does the work at the table with GOER, PEF President Ken Brynien has engaged the 2nd floor (Governor's office) on issues of great import to our members. We will continue our efforts on these multiple fronts until we achieve a contract that is comparable to those provided other state employee unions. 
 
We thank our members for their continued support and wish each of you a happy and safe new year!

 
UUP SETTLES
Joining CSEA and DC37 the United University Professions becomes the latest union to settle their contract negotiations with GOER. To read highlights of the UUP deal click here:   http://www.uupinfo.org/contract/bulletin.html